Guild Warfare

Posts : 3124 Join date : 2012-11-13

As you all know, one of the major coming features is Guild Warfare. Guilds will be able to control regions which belong to their Faction and acquire bonuses. We wouldn't want to reveal the whole system, as we want it to be a surprise, but we are more than happy to hear what YOU would like to see and perhaps add more stuff in it.

So shoot away Idea

Posts : 138 Join date : 2012-11-12

RuneSlayer wrote:: As you all know, one of the major coming features is Guild Warfare. Guilds will be able to control regions which belong to their Faction and acquire bonuses. We wouldn't want to reveal the whole system, as we want it to be a surprise, but we are more than happy to hear what YOU would like to see and perhaps add more stuff in it.

So shoot away

Region Offers the Guild Income - just like Cities, it would offer Gold / Wood / Stone / Iron. And the Guild would be able to upgrade the production just as it would it's own Building levels.
Upgrade Guild Fortifications, this was discussed during closed beta, the guild would be able to construct Fortifications, Towers, or other militias which would help Protect the Control of the region. Again this would be Upgradable.
Guild has a Fixed Fame Associated with it, which increases with the level of upgrades on it.
Perhaps offer Special Buildings to be constructed in some regions, which allow forging special equipment, or allow a Bonus on any of the resource that is being produced in that region.

That's off the top of my head for now! Embarassed

Posts : 3124 Join date : 2012-11-13

CycLonite wrote:

RuneSlayer wrote:: As you all know, one of the major coming features is Guild Warfare. Guilds will be able to control regions which belong to their Faction and acquire bonuses. We wouldn't want to reveal the whole system, as we want it to be a surprise, but we are more than happy to hear what YOU would like to see and perhaps add more stuff in it.

So shoot away

Region Offers the Guild Income - just like Cities, it would offer Gold / Wood / Stone / Iron. And the Guild would be able to upgrade the production just as it would it's own Building levels.
Upgrade Guild Fortifications, this was discussed during closed beta, the guild would be able to construct Fortifications, Towers, or other militias which would help Protect the Control of the region. Again this would be Upgradable.
Guild has a Fixed Fame Associated with it, which increases with the level of upgrades on it.
Perhaps offer Special Buildings to be constructed in some regions, which allow forging special equipment, or allow a Bonus on any of the resource that is being produced in that region.

That's off the top of my head for now! Embarassed

They are already part of Guild Warfare. Wink

Posts : 138 Join date : 2012-11-12

RuneSlayer wrote:: They are already part of Guild Warfare.

Awesome!

Also Special Units for Guilds, each Region can offer an Unique Unit for the Guild Members to Buy. Currently with what is discussed these are Bonuses to the Guild as such and not to individual members. So I was hoping that the fabled Mercenary Camp is unlocked and available once a Guild Captures a Region. This Mercenary Camp can offer hiring Units of various races, but require upkeep (besides the normal healing) for each Battle you enter with them.

Posts : 483 Join date : 2013-04-27

Two Main Suggestions:

Place "objectives" on some hexes that can be captured by guilds. Once captured, they provide bonuses in battle and/or trickle income to the guild and their side.
Make Hexes more difficult for a side to capture as they push towards the enemy capital.

A few examples / ideas:

Mining Camp -- [Some of the Northern Mountain Hexes] Gives +X% Stone & Iron income to guild members and +Y% bonus to the entire side.
Fortified Bridge Crossing -- [The middle Bridge on Hexes 51/57] Gives a significant +X% AP to the size of defending armies. Bridge tax gives +1% gold income to the entire side.
Supply Outposts -- [2-3 Temporarily placed in the central 5 columns of hexes. 1 moves randomly every 12 hrs.] Makes it easier to capture the surrounding hexes.
Elven Library -- [One of the Forest Hexes] If held by a lightside guild, gives +X% xp. If captured by the dark side, it gives those who worked on that hex a lump sum XP bonus and destroys the building. The library has to respawn after some time, or perhaps after doing nearby quests.

About Objectives:

Not all Hexes would have objectives to capture.
Some objectives can be static and strategically important to pushing the warfront.
Some objectives should move around different areas of the map.
Some should be easier to do for smaller guilds.
Some can be destroyable / respawnable and give different rewards to each side on a successful capture.

About Hex Difficulty Gradient:

For this to work well, there needs to be a bit more movement in the central area of the map. Lots of ways to do this. One way would be to increase the CP decay on hexes farther away from your side's capital. Every 6hrs, the decay would be near non-existent near your capital, but your side would lose a lot of CP on hexes near the enemy capital.
Different hexes should have a little more relevance to the overall war strategy - and this relevance should change over time. This makes territory more interesting.

Posts : 3124 Join date : 2012-11-13

As development for Guild Warfare continues, I want to give you some information about it.

1) Some of the Regions on the World Map will have a special bonus, which can be utilized by a Guild when it is under its control. Some of the Regional Bonuses are:

i) Unique Unit Recruitment
ii) Training Grounds (XP Bonus)
iii) Temple (Decreases Units' Healing Time)
iv) Ancient Forge (Decreases Crafting/Repairing/Reforging time and provides a bonus to crafting a better quality item),
v) Gold Mine (Increases Gold Production Rate)
vi) Iron Mine (Increases Iron Production Rate)
vii) Rich Area (Provides More Supplies) more on supplies later..
viii) Dragon's Lair (This may or may not be included, but I wanted to create some hype, because we all love dragons, right? Wink

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2) A new resource will be introduced called "Supplies", which can only be produced by Regions and is required in several aspects of a Guild's operation.

3) Once a Guild attains level 2 and is able to control a Region, then the member with the right permissions can target a specific Region which Guild Members can attack and gain Influence points for the Guild. (Only Regions WITHIN the area of control of a Faction, to which the Guild belongs, can be targeted.)

4) Once a min. number of Influence Points has been gathered and if the Guild has at least 51% Influence in a Region, then at the end of a conquest cycle the Guild gains control of that Region and it becomes its Main Base (we need a cooler name than that... )

5) From then on, the member with the right permissions can target adjacent Regions by declaring military actions:

i) Attack: Guild's attacks will remove Influence from the Guild controlling that Region.
ii) Invade: Guild's attacks will provide Influence points to the Guild for this specific Region.
iii) Fortify: Guild's attacks will add Influence points to the Guild controlling that Region.
iv) Mercenary: Guild's attacks will add Influence points to a pre-selected Guild. (Mercenary work for gold or items or a strategical alliance, or....or...?)

All those military actions will be displayed on the World Map.

6) Once a Guild has a Region, with a Regional Bonus, under its control, then it will need to construct the appropriate building (eg. Gold Mine for example) to access the bonus. All Regional Bonuses are upgradable, as well as the production capability of a Region (Supplies) and each level provides an improved bonus. To upgrade a Regional Bonus, the Guild will require supplies, resources and in some cases a specific Guild level. All Regional Bonuses and Supplies Regional production sites have an upkeep in supplies, so Guilds need to be very careful when they are planning their infrastructure strategy and military operations as it is possible that more supplies will be needed than what can be produced to sustain the bonuses.

7) Influence in a Region will deteriorate every single day, though a Guild which is controlling a Region can reduce the deterioration rate by building Regional Defenses.

8 ) Regional Defenses have be constructed and will require resources and supplies. They have HPs and they CAN be destroyed but also repaired. They are upgradable and each level will provide bonuses to repairing times, Influence Bonuses, better protection from capital armies and even towers with archers and catapults on the battlefield!

9) Enemy Guilds will be able to destroy a Region's Defenses by attacking the Region and destroying a Tower or Towers on the battlefield. Each time a Tower is destroyed, that will be reflected to the Regional Defense's HPs. However, as mentioned above, the defending Guild will be able to repair the damage, though it will require time.

I will leave you with this information for now and a surprise... All the Races will obtain an additional unit, before the Guild Warfare. We believe that new units should be ready by next week. We are planning to add a lot of new units, with different stats, to provide the ground for many variations of army compositions and tactics on the battlefield.

Posts : 483 Join date : 2013-04-27

Bump for newer players to read the cool plans -- and things I'd like to see us be able to build: http://goo.gl/KBu5m

Posts : 511 Join date : 2013-05-08 Location : Amber Shores

that link

Posts : 6 Join date : 2013-06-01

Well this is certainly interesting. From that description it sounds like guild warfare involves fighting other guilds within your faction in order to gain overall influence. Is that accurate? If so, it adds an interesting political subplot to the game while still maintaining the overall war between light and dark. I like it Smile

Oh, and don't call it a "Main Base," Call it a "Fiefdom" Cool

After all, guilds will now be groups holding their own lands while being pledged to their faction.

Posts : 75 Join date : 2013-05-28

That sound really cool !

About "main base"... Guild castle ? Guild fort ? Maybe let the guild leader choose the name of the castle / city and let it appear on the map...

Posts : 35 Join date : 2013-05-19

I REALLY do -NOT- like the idea of internal warfare between guilds in the same alliance.... seriously, how is this a good idea?

Don't do this, please don't do this, thats just bad. It's going to further split the player base and just piss people off when their own allies are screwing them over. People get pissed at 200 points of friendly fire in a 2k AP coop match.

If there isn't enough space for guilds to claim new lands, well then I guess that guild should go out and take some land away from the enemy faction and claim it themselves!

Incorporating a way to make capturing an enemy hex lead into becoming a hex controlled by that legion would be better.

Posts : 75 Join date : 2013-05-28

athose wrote:: I REALLY do -NOT- like the idea of internal warfare between guilds in the same alliance.... seriously, how is this a good idea?

It can help the low pop side (dark) by divising enemy forces... Maybe it can help solving this issue...

Posts : 13 Join date : 2013-06-01

Dark side guilds will be only fighting over the control of capital if nothing is done about the unbalanced population Smile

Posts : 7 Join date : 2013-06-13 Location : no

hi,
I just wanna ask if there are new informations about Guild Warfare. bounce

Posts : 117 Join date : 2013-05-17

qcpass2080 wrote:: hi,
I just wanna ask if there are new informations about Guild Warfare.

If you are member of a guild, you should ask your guild leader, this was discussed in the High Council meeting. If not, you can mail me your questions and I may or may not be able to answer.

Subject: Candidates. Mon Jun 17, 2013 11:30 pm

It would be cool if a guild would takeover a region by sending candidates to PvP. Like adding a new rank which will allow them to PvP over that region.

Posts : 24 Join date : 2013-06-07

Mephy

qcpass2080 wrote:: hi,
I just wanna ask if there are new informations about Guild Warfare.

If you are member of a guild, you should ask your guild leader, this was discussed in the High Council meeting. If not, you can mail me your questions and I may or may not be able to answer.

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That is, if your guild was invited to the high council chat thingy